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The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.

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If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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Determine Exactly Full Listening might Room Stanton Still Sure Weeping
What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.

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